“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
“[L]uxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see… — Anne Leckie Copy Share Image
The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle. — Byron Dorgan Copy Share Image
Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
I feel that I'm in a very interesting position, where I'm standing back to look at this change, at this moment in… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help… — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image
“Civilization’ is just a word! There is a touch of indirect ‘racism’ in it. It unjustly means that the primitive people were… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
“What is word for good together living? Nobody shits in the well?" I laughed. "Civilization?" He nodded, splaying his fingers: amusement. "Yes,"… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Our carbon emissions have to eventually go to zero. We have to. Otherwise we're never going to have a stable climate and… — Katharine Hayhoe Copy Share Image
Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
